Ashen

If you've been struggling to hook up with ghost pals in newfangled Soulsian RPG Ashen, you should give your dating profile an overhaul. If you've just been trying to play the videogame with them, then good news! Developers Aurora44 have fixed an issue preventing some players from accessing multiplayer, leaving them stuck with AI companions rather than a humans. That's good, because co-op in the…

In case you hadn't gleaned this detail from today's many posts mentioning games launching on Epic's Store: Epic's new digital games store has now opened for business. While their "hand-curated set of games" only includes four you can actually buy right now, one of them is the surprise new game from the makers of Bastion and that's not a bad coup. Epic Games have managed…

Ashen [official site] looks pretty different to when we last saw it, but over the past year it's only become more beautiful. The new trailer revealed during Microsoft’s E3 press conference is stunning, and shows off some of the co-operative exploration gameplay. Did we also mention that it’s really, really pretty?

The Ashen website promises "open world", "passive multiplayer", "non-linear progression" and "high risk combat", which are all things that sound exciting and Up My Street and My Bag so on. That's not why I'm posting about it though, because those things don't exist yet and I haven't and can't play the game. I'm posting about it because its concept art is gorgeous and because of…